In their frenzy to beat freshness into the endless loops of disaster footage that have been running all day, broadcasters might have mentioned that nearly all the visible people left behind in New Orleans are of the black persuasion, and mostly poor.

The key to us winning the BWAC is running together in a pack and to keep improving,

Because of the magnitude of this disaster, it would be very difficult to say.

I sometimes have signs I put on the side of the car. I've got disaster zone signs, pizza signs. If they (surveillance subjects) can identify you, they're not afraid of you anymore.

It was the miracle day and the disaster day also because there were a lot of miracle stories to be told.

Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarcely mentioned that fact.